Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced that the Scientific American Supplement & Builders Archive Collection is now available to institutional customers at www.nature.com/scientificamerican/archive. Readers can now explore floor plans of unique houses in addition to historic advancements in science, technology and medicine.
This collection brings together more than 56,880 articles in over 2,500 issues and features content from both the Scientific American Supplement and Scientific American Builders publications. Content included is unique to this collection and not available in the existing four Scientific American archive collections.
The Scientific American Builders collection offers a historical look into building techniques and designs from the 19th and 20th centuries. It includes original floor plans for grand estates and buildings such as the Whittemore Memorial Library in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Original photographs feature Belcourt Castle in Newport, Rhode Island and "White Hall" in Palm Beach, Florida. The Supplement provides insight into inventions, scientific discoveries, and biographies of scientists and inventors from 1876-1921.
Published since 1845, Scientific American claims to be the longest continually published magazine in the US. Scientific American's complete archive, back to volume 1, issue 1, is available on nature.com and can be purchased as five collections.
The Scientific American archive is an integrated part of the nature.com platform. The archive is searchable by keyword, author, article title or DOI for refined results. Alternatively, users can also browse by year and issue. The Nature archive back to 1869 is also available on the nature.com platform.
